Meaning

1 senses

  1. (derogatory, informal)To become wildly confused, out of control, or mentally unbalanced.

Examples

4 sentences

  1. The team went haywire after winning the world cup.

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  2. It is essential to keep calm in a time of crisis and avoid going haywire.

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  3. Tom went haywire.

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  4. The hackers hacked into Tom's car and made it go haywire.

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Translations

1 languages

Forms

goes haywire, going haywire, went haywire, gone haywire
Base formgo haywire · to go haywire
3rd person singulargoes haywire
Present participlegoing haywire
Past simplewent haywire
Past participlegone haywire

irregular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theygo haywire
he, she, itgoes haywire

Past simpleLesson

all personswent haywire

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave gone haywire
he, she, ithas gone haywire

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill go haywire

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
gnugoA1goagoadgoalA1
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